Scarce journalistic literature
MURAKAMI, Haruki. Underground. The Tokyo Gas Attack & the Japanese Psyche. London: The Harvill Press. 2000.
8vo. Publisher's red cloth, spine lettered in gilt; in the original illustrated dust wrapper designed by Jamie Keenan, with a photograph of the author by Marion Ettlinger (not price-clipped); black endpapers; pp. [viii], 309, [3]; very minor bruising to tail of spine, a fine copy.
First UK edition, with full number line 1-9. Surprisingly scarce.
Underground has been described as a work of 'Journalistic Literature', based upon the Tokyo subway sarin attack which shook Japan in 1995. Over the space of a year, Murakami interviewed sixty victims of the attacks, in an attempt to capture how Japanese civilians had responded to them. The book was originally published in Japan in 1997, and this, the first English edition, includes new interviews with members of Aum Shinrikyo, the group responsible for the atrocity.
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